Video chat gives me so many problems.

This is probably the third topic I've made, just on videochatting. It hates me.
This time it's with my friend who got her Macbook with Leopard yesterday. I'm running Tiger on a Macbook Pro. I'll also include my friend Mike who has a Macbook with Tiger.
Okay well when I try and video chat with my friend who has Leopard it doesn't work, and comes up "Remote IP address is invalid." It also says error- 4. However, I've instructed her to turn off file sharing and she is only running on one modem. She can video chat with Mike, with no problems, as can I. But when we try to do a three way chat, I can hear her and see her, but she can only hear me, and in the background it makes an ear-piercingly horrible noise.
It is very frustrating that two machines as new as ours should not be working. My video chat has always had problems, and is selective in who it has problems with. Could it be something with my router?
P.S. I just checked my Connection Doctor, turns out I've had all of these errors within the last couple of tries
Chat ended with error -8
Chat ended with error -8
Chat ended with error -8
Chat ended with error -8
Chat ended with error -7
Chat ended with error -7
Chat ended with error -4
Chat ended with error -4
Chat ended with error -4
Chat ended with error -4
help me please, once and for all.

Ok they should turn off Internet Sharing not File Sharing.
The Leopard end can see two networks hence error 4.
Error 4 is a symptom of Internet Sharing being On or Parallels being in action and sharing the Mac's IP.
It can also show up if the Leopard end is wired and wireless to the same router.
It can also show up if there are two DHCP servers caused by a router and a routing modem both doing DHCP.
10:15 PM Saturday; January 12, 2008

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